Upcoming events.
May Gallery Openings!
Images ( Left to Right) : O’Neil Family | S. Roth | M. Hall | K. Straus
IN THE GALLERIES | May 3-31st, 2025
opening reception | Saturday May 3rd, 5-7pm
ABORN GALLERY
@95 Mathewson St.
Game Theory v. Ballet | Steve Roth
PROJECT SPACE | READING ROOM
@93 Mathewson St.
Unhinged | O’Neil Family
AS220 MAIN GALLERY
@115 Empire St.
Omnipresent | Kristine Straus & Megan Hall
RESIDENT GALLERY
@131 Washington St.
Cryptozoologic Garden | Shawn Wallace
Power -N- Process panel series: FUTUREWORLDS
Get ready for the debut of FUTUREWORLDS 9: No More Running as we kick the run of shows off with a panel discussion at the AS220 Main Stage!
Come hear how the artists behind the process see Afrofuturist theater, hip hop, and media as tools for interrogating systems of power and redefining the reality that we live in.
AS220 Youth: Futureworlds 9 - No More Running
Doors at 6 PM, show at 7 PM.
AS220 Youth presents FutureWorlds 9: No More Running, a sequel to FutureWorlds 8: What Happened to the IV? Join us for a multi-layered Afrofuturist hip hop theatre production produced and performed by some of Providence's most talented young artists from AS220 Youth!
Home: Where do you come from? Who do you belong to? How do you find your way back after being lost for so long?
FutureWorlds9 picks up where FutureWorlds8 left off. E, Zay, and Shanti have completed their mission of finding The Fourth, an underground community free of the tyrannical A.I. government force controlling Providence, A.R.Y.E.S. A long awaited reunion with E’s grandfather, Elijah X, is short-lived when A.R.Y.E.S. breaks their way into the secret location of The Fourth. Can the Fourth survive a war against A.R.Y.E.S.? Will Shanti reconcile with her mother? Can Zay be honest with his friends about his emotions? Will E ever find home?
AS220 Youth: Futureworlds 9 - No More Running
Doors at 6 PM, show at 7 PM.
AS220 Youth presents FutureWorlds 9: No More Running, a sequel to FutureWorlds 8: What Happened to the IV? Join us for a multi-layered Afrofuturist hip hop theatre production produced and performed by some of Providence's most talented young artists from AS220 Youth!
Home: Where do you come from? Who do you belong to? How do you find your way back after being lost for so long?
FutureWorlds9 picks up where FutureWorlds8 left off. E, Zay, and Shanti have completed their mission of finding The Fourth, an underground community free of the tyrannical A.I. government force controlling Providence, A.R.Y.E.S. A long awaited reunion with E’s grandfather, Elijah X, is short-lived when A.R.Y.E.S. breaks their way into the secret location of The Fourth. Can the Fourth survive a war against A.R.Y.E.S.? Will Shanti reconcile with her mother? Can Zay be honest with his friends about his emotions? Will E ever find home?
AS220 Youth: Futureworlds 9 - No More Running
Doors at 6 PM, show at 7 PM.
AS220 Youth presents FutureWorlds 9: No More Running, a sequel to FutureWorlds 8: What Happened to the IV? Join us for a multi-layered Afrofuturist hip hop theatre production produced and performed by some of Providence's most talented young artists from AS220 Youth!
Home: Where do you come from? Who do you belong to? How do you find your way back after being lost for so long?
FutureWorlds9 picks up where FutureWorlds8 left off. E, Zay, and Shanti have completed their mission of finding The Fourth, an underground community free of the tyrannical A.I. government force controlling Providence, A.R.Y.E.S. A long awaited reunion with E’s grandfather, Elijah X, is short-lived when A.R.Y.E.S. breaks their way into the secret location of The Fourth. Can the Fourth survive a war against A.R.Y.E.S.? Will Shanti reconcile with her mother? Can Zay be honest with his friends about his emotions? Will E ever find home?
AS220 Youth: Futureworlds 9 - No More Running
Doors at 6 PM, show at 7 PM.
AS220 Youth presents FutureWorlds 9: No More Running, a sequel to FutureWorlds 8: What Happened to the IV? Join us for a multi-layered Afrofuturist hip hop theatre production produced and performed by some of Providence's most talented young artists from AS220 Youth!
Home: Where do you come from? Who do you belong to? How do you find your way back after being lost for so long?
FutureWorlds9 picks up where FutureWorlds8 left off. E, Zay, and Shanti have completed their mission of finding The Fourth, an underground community free of the tyrannical A.I. government force controlling Providence, A.R.Y.E.S. A long awaited reunion with E’s grandfather, Elijah X, is short-lived when A.R.Y.E.S. breaks their way into the secret location of The Fourth. Can the Fourth survive a war against A.R.Y.E.S.? Will Shanti reconcile with her mother? Can Zay be honest with his friends about his emotions? Will E ever find home?
AS220 Youth: Futureworlds 9 - No More Running
Doors at 6 PM, show at 7 PM.
AS220 Youth presents FutureWorlds 9: No More Running, a sequel to FutureWorlds 8: What Happened to the IV? Join us for a multi-layered Afrofuturist hip hop theatre production produced and performed by some of Providence's most talented young artists from AS220 Youth!
Home: Where do you come from? Who do you belong to? How do you find your way back after being lost for so long?
FutureWorlds9 picks up where FutureWorlds8 left off. E, Zay, and Shanti have completed their mission of finding The Fourth, an underground community free of the tyrannical A.I. government force controlling Providence, A.R.Y.E.S. A long awaited reunion with E’s grandfather, Elijah X, is short-lived when A.R.Y.E.S. breaks their way into the secret location of The Fourth. Can the Fourth survive a war against A.R.Y.E.S.? Will Shanti reconcile with her mother? Can Zay be honest with his friends about his emotions? Will E ever find home?
AS220 Youth: Futureworlds 9 - No More Running
Doors at 6 PM, show at 7 PM.
AS220 Youth presents FutureWorlds 9: No More Running, a sequel to FutureWorlds 8: What Happened to the IV? Join us for a multi-layered Afrofuturist hip hop theatre production produced and performed by some of Providence's most talented young artists from AS220 Youth!
Home: Where do you come from? Who do you belong to? How do you find your way back after being lost for so long?
FutureWorlds9 picks up where FutureWorlds8 left off. E, Zay, and Shanti have completed their mission of finding The Fourth, an underground community free of the tyrannical A.I. government force controlling Providence, A.R.Y.E.S. A long awaited reunion with E’s grandfather, Elijah X, is short-lived when A.R.Y.E.S. breaks their way into the secret location of The Fourth. Can the Fourth survive a war against A.R.Y.E.S.? Will Shanti reconcile with her mother? Can Zay be honest with his friends about his emotions? Will E ever find home?
Providence Poetry Slam
Join Prov Slam for their GRAND SLAM FINALS!
All poets who have advanced through the two semi-final slams will compete to see who makes the cut to be on the 2025 Providence Poetry Slam Team.
Come out and support poetry, spoken word, and all these amazing artists!
Doors open at 7pm, show starts around 8pm.
Admission is $5-10 suggested donation, or pay what you can.
Heaven’s Ex, Pearl Sugar, Bittersweet, Moss Boy
heaven’s ex
rhode island based grungy guitar band, comprised of members of mutter, the symps, hairspray queen, bochek, nova one, & many more. crushing guitars & driving songs with sweet soaring manic vocals. this is their first live appearance.
pearl sugar
hailing from the wooded hills of hadley massachusetts, this power trio writes honest to god rock tunes. will make your heart hurt. they also have incredible style.
moss boy
south county heads rise up, these youngins are bringing shoegaze to the ocean state in a big way. their debut recording effort (engineered by local recording hero Chaimes Parker at big nice studio) is sure to knock your socks off, full stop.
bittersweet
a collaborative effort between locals Muggs Fogarty & Will Farrell, bittersweet brings harsh tones & angelic musings. bring your earplugs.
Flow & Form: A Community in Motion
Since the beginning, dance at AS220 has been about more than movement—it has been a gathering place, a language of resistance, and release. Flow & Form honors the artists who help to shape and hold these spaces, the instructors whose steps guide and inspire, and the community that moves together in shared expression. This showcase is a tribute to the artistry and dedication of AS220’s dance instructors, presenting original choreographic works that embody the power of movement as connection. Each piece is a celebration of the spaces they cultivate, the stories they tell, and the bodies they empower. Through motion, we build. Through rhythm, we unite. Through dance, we become.
Mariana Paes - Brazilian Flamenco
A celebration of the anti-colonial nature of flamenco, mixing flamenco and Brazilian music.
Ann Ditmars - Echoes Again (excerpt)
The changing energies and moods in the second of Schubert's "Three Piano Pieces" (D.946) inspire and drive this contemporary ballet duet. Soft, daydreaming phrases repeat, intensify, and intersect as the dancers respond to the music and to one another. This duet is an excerpt from a longer ballet first created in 2018 for the Providence College Dance Company and adapted for AS220's (canceled) spring 2020 showcase.
Goddess Merline - Unravel
A look into my exploration of movement, rawness, authenticity, and ancestral expression.
Haus of Glitter - Mis Hijos
A meditation on healing, love, tenderness, inherited generational trauma, mothering and othermothering.
Amare Beyan - The Phoenix
The inspiration behind this piece stems from the journey of my transition. A new found revelation as an effect of healing and finding self love and self reflection. Being re born and transformed into the women I’ve always been. A powerful, strong, fierce androgynous black woman. Birthed from the ashes that once destroyed me. I’m on a path that symbolizes the phoenix.
Open Haus Ki - Open Haus Ki
Bringing the energy of Open Studio to the stage, showcasing Vogue, the dance category in Ballroom.
Power -N- Process panel discussion #2: AS220 Dance
Join us at the AS220 Main Stage as our panelists from the Haus of Glitter, Mariana Paes, Poyfy Merline, and Amare Beyan, explore the rich history of dance and movement practice and education at AS220: how and why it came to be and what the current needs are today.
Adeline + Serious Goose
Adeline:
From banjo and 3-part harmonies to distorted electric guitars, Adeline draws inspiration from both western twangs and alt rock garages. With seven members, Adeline is the smallest country shoegaze band in Providence, RI.
Serious Goose:
Serious Goose is a 5-piece indie rock band from Providence, RI. Forming in 2023, they wrote and released their debut EP, "If I Could, I'd Write a Book," taking influences from funk, screamo, and everything in between. With a full length album on the way, Serious Goose is always experimenting with combining the danceable and the deeply undanceable in to something new
Christoph Heemann + Heathen Shame + Matt Krefting + VOSP
A legendary figure in underground music, Christoph Heemann has quietly produced a unique body of work beginning with the absurdist tape cut-ups of H.N.A.S. in the mid-1980s. In addition to the precise cinema pour l'oreille constructions of his solo work, he has collaborated with a wide range of musicians, including Merzbow, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, and Jim O'Rourke, and has had longstanding partnerships in Mirror (with Andrew Chalk), In Camera (with Timo van Lujik) and Mimir (with Edward Ka-Spel of The Legendary Pink Dots). This will be his first New England performance in well over a decade.
Heathen Shame from Massachusetts is Greg Kelley (of Nmperign with Bhob Rainey), Wayne Rogers, and Kate Village (both of Major Stars and Twisted Village Records). In the 25+ years since their founding in 1999, they have been unleashing an onslaught of unbridled twin-guitar feedback and radical trumpet techniques that few artists can approach. They are the loudest free jazz trio in the world.
Matt Krefting is a writer and musician based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in The Wire, The Huffington Post, Bull Tongue Review, and elsewhere. A member of Son of Earth, The Believers, Idea Fire Company, and Sunburned Hand of the Man, he also creates his own solo music for cassettes. His music has been published by Open Mouth, Kye, and Ultra Eczema, among others.
VOSP is the project of Providence artist Eric Grieshaber, exploring a diverse and evolving practice rooted in ambient, experimental, and extreme electronic & synthesized sounds. He is a member of two of the most pioneering musique concrete acts found in the United States today—the subversive improv quartet Pool with CF (Kites), Ren Schofield (Container), and Alex Tominsky (Spiritual Recess), and the Ocean State exotica group Hand of Food with Dave Public and Dylan Going. He is also a co-founder of the record label Hold, and plays in the rock band 'FKA Lazy Magnet'. You can find his music on labels such as Load Records, Reserve Matinee, Alien Passengers, No Rent, and Hold.
